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There are 107 misheard song lyrics for Procol Harum on amIright currently.
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"A Salty Dog" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
How many moons and many Junes
Have passed since we made love?
Have passed since we made love?
Original Lyrics:
How many moons and many Junes
Have passed since we made land?
Have passed since we made land?
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Anchovy eye that later
Original Lyrics:
And so it was that later.
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And although my eyes would go blind.
Original Lyrics:
And although my eyes were open.
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And so it was a maiden
As the many stories tell
That her face had burst, just go see
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
As the many stories tell
That her face had burst, just go see
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
Original Lyrics:
And so it was that later
As the miller told its tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
As the miller told its tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And so it wasn't made up
As the millet old and stale
As the millet old and stale
Original Lyrics:
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale.
As the miller told his tale.
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
As the mellow told is tell
Original Lyrics:
As the miller told his tale
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
As the mirror told its tale.
Original Lyrics:
As the miller told his tale.
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
As the villain told his tale.
Original Lyrics:
As the miller told his tale.
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
As we crawled under a night train
Original Lyrics:
As we called out for another drink
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Once the sick teens left all virgins.
Original Lyrics:
One of sixteen vestal virgins
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
One if six teen vestal virgins
Original Lyrics:
One of sixteen vestal virgins
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Skip a line bang-bango.
Original Lyrics:
We skipped the light Fandango.
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Son of Sistene postal urchins
Original Lyrics:
One of sixteen vestal virgins
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
That her face at first just go sleep
Original Lyrics:
That her face, at first just ghostly,
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
That the face of Alice Ghostley
Original Lyrics:
That her face, at first just ghostly,
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Turn to Wyatt Earp's shaver pail.
Original Lyrics:
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Turn to Wyatt Earp, Sheriff Pal. or (Sheriff Friend)
Original Lyrics:
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
I sang the wrong lyrics for years up until high school, when a musician friend of mine started laughing at me when we discussed Whiter Shade of Pale as a song we were to play in our band, as I read the Lyrics I started laughing too, when I told him what I thought the lyrics were about Wyatt Earp!
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Turn to Wyatt Earp, shade our fate.
Original Lyrics:
Turned a whiter shade of pale
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Turn to Wyatt Earp. Shake a pail.
Original Lyrics:
Turned a whiter shade of pale
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
We skip the life and dangle.
Original Lyrics:
We skipped the light fandango.
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
We skip the life and dangle.
Original Lyrics:
We skipped the light fandango.
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
We skip the life and then go.
Original Lyrics:
We skipped a light Fandango.
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
We skipped a life and Dango
Original Lyrics:
We skipped the light Fandango.
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
We skipped our lives and dangled
Original Lyrics:
We skipped the light Fandango.
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And Shelby was a ladle
As the mirror told its tale
That to face it first then go sleep
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
As the mirror told its tale
That to face it first then go sleep
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
Original Lyrics:
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And although my eyes were open
We might just as well been toast.
We might just as well been toast.
Original Lyrics:
And although my eyes were open
They might just as well been closed.
They might just as well been closed.
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And although my eyes were open
They might just as well been whores.
They might just as well been whores.
Original Lyrics:
And although my eyes were open
They might just as well been closed.
They might just as well been closed.
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And show we watched the way
As the mirror told its tale
As the mirror told its tale
Original Lyrics:
And show it was that later
As the miller told his tale
As the miller told his tale
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And snowy was the maiden
Original Lyrics:
And so it was that later
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And so it was a maid, yeah
As the mirror told his tale
That our faces burst, just go see
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
As the mirror told his tale
That our faces burst, just go see
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
Original Lyrics:
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And so it was the waiter
As the mirror told its tale
Let her faces burst, just go see
Turn a whiter shade of pale.
As the mirror told its tale
Let her faces burst, just go see
Turn a whiter shade of pale.
Original Lyrics:
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And so she was the ladle
Original Lyrics:
And so it was that later.
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And so we walked away,
As the miracle occurred.
As the miracle occurred.
Original Lyrics:
And so it was that later
As the miller told its tale
As the miller told its tale
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I saw a wise little baby.
Original Lyrics:
And so it was that later.
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
One of sixteen vesseled virgins
Original Lyrics:
One of sixteen vestal virgins
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
One of sixteen vestal virgins was leaving for the coast, and although my eyes were opened, they might just as well been toast.
Original Lyrics:
One of sixteen vestal virgins was leaving for the coast, and although my eyes were opened, they might just as well been closed.
I thought it meant that once vestal virgins got to the coast, they'd cavort at the beach with boys, and their virginity would then be "toast."
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
That her face had burst'd just ghostly
Original Lyrics:
That her face at first just ghostly
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Then the face of Alice Ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
Original Lyrics:
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
[Ed.'s note: Alice Ghostly played "Aunt Esmerelda" on the TV Show "Bewitched".]
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Then the face of Justice Goldstein
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
Original Lyrics:
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Turned Delilah a shade of pale
Original Lyrics:
Turned a whiter shade of pale
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Turned the wide earth shade of pale
AND
One of sixteen plessal virgins
AND
One of sixteen plessal virgins
Original Lyrics:
Turned a whiter shade of pale
AND
One of sixteen vestal virgins
AND
One of sixteen vestal virgins
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
We skip the life and dangle
Original Lyrics:
We skipped the light fandango
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
we skipping life and than go
Original Lyrics:
We skipped the light Fandango.
"Barnyard Stories"
Misheard Lyrics:
Once I stood upon a lamp post.
Original Lyrics:
Once I stood upon Olympus.
"Conquistador" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And in your litmus face
Original Lyrics:
And in your death-mask face
"Conquistador" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Conquistador -- a fortune sits upon your silver sheen
And in your rusty scabbard now, the Santas take the heat
And though your jewel-encrusted plate
Has not been plundered still
The scene has washed across all the place
And taken all that's fair.
And in your rusty scabbard now, the Santas take the heat
And though your jewel-encrusted plate
Has not been plundered still
The scene has washed across all the place
And taken all that's fair.
Original Lyrics:
Conquistador -- a vulture sits upon your silver sheath
And in your rusty scabbard now, the sand has taken seed
And though your jewel-encrusted blade
Has not been plundered still
The sea has washed across your face
And taken of its fill.
And in your rusty scabbard now, the sand has taken seed
And though your jewel-encrusted blade
Has not been plundered still
The sea has washed across your face
And taken of its fill.
"Conquistador" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Conquistador -- a fortune sits upon your silver sheen
And in your rusty scabbard now, the Santas take the heat
And though your jewel-encrusted plate
Has not been plundered still
The scene has washed across all the place
And taken all that's fair.
And in your rusty scabbard now, the Santas take the heat
And though your jewel-encrusted plate
Has not been plundered still
The scene has washed across all the place
And taken all that's fair.
Original Lyrics:
Conquistador -- a vulture sits upon your silver sheath
And in your rusty scabbard now, the sand has taken seed
And though your jewel-encrusted blade
Has not been plundered still
The sea has washed across your face
And taken of its fill.
And in your rusty scabbard now, the sand has taken seed
And though your jewel-encrusted blade
Has not been plundered still
The sea has washed across your face
And taken of its fill.
"Conquistador" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I could see no face to unwind
Original Lyrics:
I could see no maze to unwind
"Conquistador" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I could see no mace to unwind
Original Lyrics:
I could see no maze to unwind
"Conquistador" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I could see no place to unwind
Original Lyrics:
I could see no maze to unwind
"Conquistador" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
She has washed her bras and face, and taken off her skin.
Original Lyrics:
The sea has washed across your face and taken of its fill.
"Conquistador" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
conked with a door
Original Lyrics:
Conquistador
Considering the way the song title's pronounced: maybe the singer WAS conked with a door.
"Fresh Fruit"
Misheard Lyrics:
Rover wags his tail with glee
Yeah, whenever he gets to spit the seeds.
Yeah, whenever he gets to spit the seeds.
Original Lyrics:
Rover wags his tail with glee
Yeah, whenever he gets his Vitamin C.
Yeah, whenever he gets his Vitamin C.
What threw me off here is the fact that the British do not pronounce the word 'vitamin' the same way as Americans do. (British: vih-tah-min. American: vi-tah-min.)
"Homburg" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And your shoes arrest you wrong
Original Lyrics:
And your shoes are laced up wrong
"Homburg" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Has packed her bags with Fred
Original Lyrics:
Has packed her bags and fled
"Homburg" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Leaving only ass-filled ashtrays
Original Lyrics:
Leaving only ash-filled ashtrays
"Homburg" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
You'd better take off for Hamburg
Original Lyrics:
You'd better take off your homburg
"Homburg" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Your trousers are all dirty
Original Lyrics:
Your trouser cuffs are dirty
"Look To Your Soul"
Misheard Lyrics:
It doesn't matter either way
I'll be a wiseman soon.
I'll be a wiseman soon.
Original Lyrics:
It doesn't matter either way
I'll be a wiseman's fool.
I'll be a wiseman's fool.
"Pandora’s Box"
Misheard Lyrics:
And Snow White still remains obscene
Original Lyrics:
And Snow White still remains unseen
"Quite Rightly So"
Misheard Lyrics:
Upon my Frito-Lay
Original Lyrics:
Upon my field of wheat
"She Wandered Through The Garden Fence"
Misheard Lyrics:
She wandered through the garden fence and said, 'I've brought a great expanse of ocean guaranteed to bring relief from all your suffering.'
Original Lyrics:
She wandered through the garden fence and said, 'I've brought at great expense a potion guaranteed to bring relief from all your suffering.'
"Still There Will Be More"
Misheard Lyrics:
I would have lied in the orchid
Original Lyrics:
I'll put a blight in the orchid
"Still There Will Be More"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'll drove myself right up to the sky
Original Lyrics:
I'll grow myself right up to the sky
"Still There Will Be More"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'll follow the fountains and travel the leaves
Original Lyrics:
I'll foul all the fountains and trample the leaves
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
And her face at first just goats meat turned a whiter shade of pale
Original Lyrics:
And her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of pale
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
And her face was burstion scosely
Turned the whiter shade of pale.
Turned the whiter shade of pale.
Original Lyrics:
And her face at first was ghostly
Turned the whiter shade of pale.
Turned the whiter shade of pale.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
And so in lo-o-ove
Original Lyrics:
And so it was
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
And so it was the lady
As the miller told his tale
That her face had burst just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale
As the miller told his tale
That her face had burst just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale
Original Lyrics:
And so it was the lady,
As the mirror told its tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
As the mirror told its tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
And so it was the waiter.
Original Lyrics:
And so it was that later.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
As I wondered who was playing cards
And mindin' her bees.
And mindin' her bees.
Original Lyrics:
But I wandered through my playing cards
And would not let her be.
And would not let her be.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
But I wondered, through my Plinkos
And I would not let her be
And I would not let her be
Original Lyrics:
But I wandered through my playing cards
And would not let her be.
And would not let her be.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
Let her faces burst, just go see
Turn the whiter shape of pale.
Turn the whiter shape of pale.
Original Lyrics:
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
That her face will burst your skull, Steve.
Original Lyrics:
That her face, at first just ghostly.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
The groon was tubbing harder.
Original Lyrics:
The room was humming harder.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
Trip the line fandango.
Original Lyrics:
We skipped the light fandango.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
Turn a lighter shade of pale.
Original Lyrics:
Turn a whiter shade of pale.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
Turn the wide Earth, shade of pale
or
Turn the white Earth, shade of pale
or
Turn the white Earth, shade of pale
Original Lyrics:
Turn a whiter shade of pale
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
Turned a wider shade of pale.
Original Lyrics:
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
Turned the wire, shade of pale.
Original Lyrics:
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
We skip a life and dangle.
Original Lyrics:
We skipped a light fandango.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
We skip through life and dangle
Original Lyrics:
We skip the light fandango.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
We skip trough life, and then go.
Original Lyrics:
We skipped the light fandango.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
We skipped the last fandango
or
We skipped the line for dagos
or
We skipped the line for dagos
Original Lyrics:
We skipped the light fandango.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
When we called out for a drink
The waiter brought a tray.
The waiter brought a tray.
Original Lyrics:
When we called out for a latrine
The waiter brought a tray.
The waiter brought a tray.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
When we called out for a latrine
The waiter brought a tray.
The waiter brought a tray.
Original Lyrics:
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought the tray.
The waiter brought the tray.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
When we called out for an entree the waiter brought a tray
Original Lyrics:
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray.
The waiter brought a tray.
"Whiter Shade Of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
When we called out for another drink
The waiter dropped his tray.
The waiter dropped his tray.
Original Lyrics:
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought the tray.
The waiter brought the tray.
"Whiter Shade of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
Anchovy, why slader?
Original Lyrics:
And so it was later.
"Whiter Shade of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
And Toby was the ladle,
As the mirror told its tale,
That her face just burst with gold sleep,
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
As the mirror told its tale,
That her face just burst with gold sleep,
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
Original Lyrics:
And so it was the lady,
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
"Whiter Shade of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
And so it was that later
As the melodrama's tale
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale
As the melodrama's tale
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale
Original Lyrics:
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
"Whiter Shade of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
And the Minotaur has failed.
Original Lyrics:
As the miller told his tale.
"Whiter Shade of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
As the mental told his tale
Original Lyrics:
As the miller told his tale
"Whiter Shade of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
As the mirror told it's tale
Original Lyrics:
As the miller told his tale
"Whiter Shade of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
I was feeling canazeezik, the cows called out for lawn
Original Lyrics:
I was feeling kind of seasick, the crowd called out for more
"Whiter Shade of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
One of 16 vessel virgins
Original Lyrics:
One of 16 vestal virgins
"Whiter Shade of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
Skip a line and angle.
Original Lyrics:
We skipped the light fandango.
"Whiter Shade of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
That our faces burst just ghostly
Original Lyrics:
That her face, at first just ghostly
Editor's note: To the person who submitted this, there is no such band as "Nuh Uh"...what were you thinking?!
"Whiter Shade of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
The way to board a train.
Original Lyrics:
The waiter brought a tray.
"Whiter Shade of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
We skipped the light, then bango.
Original Lyrics:
The skipped the light fandango.
"Whiter Shade of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
When at 16, they're still virgins
Original Lyrics:
One of 16 vestal virgins
"Whiter Shade of Pale"
Misheard Lyrics:
Wyatt Earp..shade of pale
Original Lyrics:
Whiter...shade of pale
I was very young.
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